Mugabe warns Ministers over having Girlfriends outside their Marital home

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has again hit out at his ministers accusing them of engaging in extra marital affairs.

The 89-year-old leader, speaking at his niece's wedding in Harare on Saturday, said his lieutenants took advantage of their wealth to have a string of unofficial wives commonly referred to as ‘small houses’ in Zimbabwe.

"The wealth some of these people have is what is causing problems," President Mugabe said.

"Small houses! I said to Cabinet the other day: 'looking at all of you, who I can say does not have a small house?"

"Let us not follow that. One man, one wife and your marriage will go a long way."

The veteran leader urged women to refuse involvement with married man saying that way the practice would stop.

"The ladies must fight this out, but they are the people in small houses," President Mugabe said.

"Indeed we fight for the right of the girl child but let us recognise those aspects of Christianity, by binding them together and make them the basis of our morality, remain faithful to one another."

He joked that he has been invited to many weddings but is never informed of divorces.

"I get invited to many weddings and often get asked to stand up and dance in celebration, which I do," President Mugabe said.
"But later I get told that ah, that wedding has failed and I wonder what I was dancing [to].

"I never get invited to the divorces."

Not good

In 2011, President Mugabe told an AIDS conference that he knew of government officials living with the disease who had multiple sexual partners.

"Cases of promiscuity are now rampant even in [ruling party] Zanu PF," he said then.

"Sometimes you wonder why someone opts to drive by himself but there are personal drivers we would have provided them, why?

"They would want to go for such evil acts of promiscuity. This is not good at all," he said.

President Mugabe early this year admitted he had an extra-marital affair himself that resulted in the birth of his first born daughter with his current wife Grace.

He had the affair while still married to his first wife, Sally who died of a kidney ailment in 1992.

Zimbabwe once had one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world but this has declined to 13 per cent.